Category Archives: Gadgets

Apple’s Breakout Box Perfect for Podcasters

24 Nov 2004 – 12:58 pm

Sure, the existance of an Apple-branded 4-channel pre-amp with FireWire, RCA, and optical is based on rumors and speculation.
It’s Christmas time, I like to dream, and it’d make my First Crack Podcasts so much easier.

By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Computers, Weblogs | Comments (2)

Better Coffee Makes Good Podcasts

31 Oct 2004 – 2:19 pm

PodCat featured First Crack Episode 4 - Better Coffee & the State of Reality TV [mp3] in their BestOfPodcasting Oct29 [mp3] episode.
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By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Minneapolis & St. Paul, Weblogs, useful utilities | Comments (0)

Stove Top Coffee Maker Attacks

16 Oct 2004 – 2:48 pm

And other stories of misbehaving technology in the third episode of the First Crack PodCast.
3. Bad Technology, Oct 16 2004 [mp3]
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New, Unexpected Music on Your iPod

12 Oct 2004 – 1:13 pm

Apple’s iPod is a closed environment. Unlike radio, the music on an iPod is limited to the owner’s music library. Personally, I’ve hit the “2,000 songs and nothing’s on” wall.
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been looking for a solution. Is it digging into MixMatcher or picking up a Sirius Receiver, like Jen?
Ultimately, I’d […]

By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Good Stuff, Podcasting, Software, Technology | Comments (3)

Save the iPods

13 Sep 2004 – 11:11 pm

I have posted this plea from the people at Save BetaMax. Serious limits to the manner in which we use our content could be the result of not making your voice heard. Please take a moment and sign up to call a representative. Thank you.
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Anyone who has ever used an iPod, taped TV shows, or […]

By Jen Bohmbach | Also posted in Ecommerce, General, Politics, Technology | Comments (0)

Twin Cities WiFi Distance Competition

28 Aug 2004 – 5:40 pm

A couple years back I worked at a wi-fi startup in Chicago. Our offices were on the 23rd floor of a building bordered by the Chicago River, the Loop, and Michigan Avenue. Across the river to the north was a Best Western with an upcoming conference and a need for internet access. The conference room […]

By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Internet, Minneapolis & St. Paul | Comments (0)

Without Commercials - TV Sucks

11 Aug 2004 – 11:07 pm

I’ve heard TiVo and other personal video recorders are great. How it could change the way I watch TV. How I could skip and fast-forward commercials immediately returing to my favorite program.
How this will force advertisers to pursue non-interruptive methods of getting their message across. Maybe make TV more like real life by […]

By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Good Stuff, Technology | Comments (1)

Are you Sirius? How push media made me excited to go to the CD store again.

22 Jul 2004 – 12:31 am

There is something about it when a song comes on the radio that you haven’t heard and you catch yourself moving to it or singing it and you didn’t even know you knew it. May I repeat a song on the radio, I haven’t had that experience in a very long time and frankly, I […]

By Jen Bohmbach | Also posted in Community, Good Stuff, Technology | Comments (1)

2-wheeled wireless access point

11 May 2004 – 11:40 am

Just heard about this on MPR’s FutureTense:
MagicBike is a mobile WiFi (wireless Internet) hotspot that gives free Internet connectivity wherever its ridden or parked.
Fun idea. If it was around, I could stop hunting for coffee shop with access.

By Garrick Van Buren | Also posted in Internet, Technology | Comments (1)

Finally…

08 Jan 2002 – 7:31 pm

A password storage application for the palm that has both a PC and a Mac desktop companion:
http://www.splashdata.com/splashid/index.htm
Plus, it has a decent interface and is only $20.

By Darrel Austin | Also posted in Computers | Comments (0)